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USA, Israel, Iran, Syria, Russia; reading between the lines.

I'm trying hard not to jump to conclusions but this latest involvement with Israel targeting Syrian defences is concerning.

Below is an mainstream article of the latest Syrian war but first my views from where I'm sitting.

Israel say that Iran flew a drone into Israel airspace from a position in Syria, so Israel responded by flying into Syria targeting where they believed the drone was launched from. During this exercise, an Israeli fighter jet was shot down so Israel responded by targeting 12 different positions in Syria.

It's been long believed that Iran has been supporting Syria (Assad) from the get-go of the Syrian uprising.

Reading between the lines can be dangerous in the sense of making false conclusions...however.

Let's look at the recent history in Syria.

It started with the uprising, a follow on from the Arab spring movement.

Assad and the Syrian Army set out to crush this uprising calling it unlawful.

In among these early weeks, rebels opposing the Syrian regime were fighting back with the USA arming these rebels with basic weapons.

These rebels then fractured into several groups and among all this confusion ISIS became the dominant news headlines rampaging throughout Syria, into Iraq and hotspots in Libya forming the Islamic state.

That's the basic mainstream news version we all got.

Now, heres what interesting. Iran has been supporting Assad from the get-go. Iran and Israel are arch enemies more than any other group in the Middle east.

Russia became involved in Syria helping Assad with the ISIS issues, based in Syria and controlling Syrian airspace while the USA and allies based out of Turkey are attacking ISIS from other areas in Syria. The basic rule was that Russia and the US would avoid each other due to the US opposing Assad and wanting the regime to collapse while Russia was there to support Assad in maintaining control over Syria...

Yup, it's a shjtshow shrouded in all kinds of ulterior motives.

Back to Iran. Russia, Syria and Iran are good mates. Russia has been making massive profits for years arming these good mates while birding an indirect finger at the US and Israel.

Under Obama and the united nations, sanctions were lifted from Iran in exchange for a holt in their nuclear program. Israeli powerbrokers not impressed and would rather sanctions remained to keep Iran poor and isolated and to mitigate any future threat from Iran becoming an open economy again (rich in oil and resources) and building up wealth.

Enter Trump also pro Israeli and anti Iran calling the UN sanctions lifting deal on Iran as outrageous and foolhardy...

Trump announcing to move the US embassy to Jerusalem creating backlash from the supposed international community opposed to such a move.

Lebanon becoming uneasy with fractured opposition due to Israeli-US mateship on full view under Trump.

Saudi Arabia King making political moves allowing the promoted Prince in purging and isolating the now 'under arrest' inside royal powerbrokers, and as of this week blackmailing them out of over $100 billion USD.

During the last 2 years Saudi, a US/Israeli puppet has been hammering opposition in Yemen armed by the USA, another hotbed of pro Iran, Russia, Syrian support.

So we've got the old cold war rivals Russia and the USA semi in the shadows using all manner of diversions and confusions arming, profiting and mostly solidifying the positions on the Middle east chess board.

What's worth understanding here is that Putin began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer in 1975. Putin rose to the top ranks of the Russian government after joining President Boris Yeltsin’s administration in 1998, becoming prime minister in 1999 before taking over as president.

Putin is still pissed at the collapse of the fatherland (USSR) due to US/Western interference and has used the reemerging 'Russia' to make wealth almost beyond belief...he's a smart sociopath! He's built up the armed forces back to a formidable force and has been carefully placing his chess pieces accordingly.

What we've got is again the control of the Middle east; it's resources, global positioning, trade routes etcetera.

Russia in are firmly established in Syria and are influencing Iran (who now have access to world markets again)

This is why I think we're seeing Israel ramp up it's activity backed by the US.

Yup it's kinda complicated but essentially we have:

Russia, Iran, Syria and other less power countries like Yemen, Lebanon in one corner.

US, Israel, Turkey, Saudi in the other.

And things have escalated in the last few days with Israel now involved in the Syrian conflict...

Watch this space because it has the possibility of becoming one major erupting shjtshow. This has zero to do with uprisings and ISIS and any other diversion thrown at the masses and everything to do with Russia and the US vying for control and position...at the expense of the global populations.

But hey...I could be wrong and it's just a general shjtshow with no meaning at all...

Here's the latest mainstream:

Article:

Israel and Iran knock heads in most serious conflict to date

A TENSE relationship between two major countries has reached boiling point, and critics are warning of serious consequences.

OVER the past weekend, Iran and Israel have engaged in one of their most serious confrontations to date.
While the two countries have long had a tense relationship, a recent series of back-and-forth strikes has sparked a new direct conflict in Syria.

Critics have warned it could explode into a war capable of further destabilising the Middle East.

The Israeli military deployed a combat helicopter to intercept the drone, and its social media head tweeted footage of the incident.

Later, Israel sent fighter jets into a Syrian military base near the city of Palmyra, where the drone was believed to be launched from.
Syria — one of Iran’s closest allies — responded by firing a number of anti-aircraft missiles, and one of Israel’s planes was struck down. It crashed into an empty field, seriously injuring the pilot.
This prompted Israel to conduct a much larger strike in Syria, attacking 12 targets, four of which were Iranian.

They told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that it was the largest and most successful attack on Syria’s missile system since the 1982 Lebanon War.

This marks the first known time that Israel has engaged in a full-frontal confrontation with Iran in Syria.
The country sought to avoid direct involvement in the Syrian war, but acknowledged carrying out dozens of air strikes there to stop what it says are advanced arms deliveries to Hezbollah.

Tensions between Israel and Iran have worsened, with fears this could spark a dangerous new phase of the war in Syria involving other countries.

ISRAEL AND IRAN’S TENSE RELATIONSHIP

Israel and Iran have had a tense relationship since the latter’s Islamic revolution of 1979.

Since then, Syria has been one of Iran’s key allies.

When Syrians began protesting the al-Assad government in 2011, there were reports that the Iranian government was assisting the regime to quell the protests.

In mid-2013, Iran sent 4000 troops in to aid the al-Assad government forces, and from that point onward it continued to step up its support.

Israel, meanwhile, has remained relatively neutral in the conflict, and has mostly kept a low profile. However, it has long held concerns about Iran’s influence in the region.

The latest confrontation is significant as it marks the most serious clash between Iran and Israel since Syria’s civil war began seven years ago.

Both countries are key figures in the region, and there are fears an open conflict between them will risk dragging neighbouring Lebanon and other surrounding countries into a new war.

HOW DID EVERYONE RESPOND TO THE INCIDENT?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to take further action against his adversaries, reiterating that his country would defend itself at all costs against Tehran.

On Iranian television, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said: “Reports of downing an Iranian drone flying over Israel and also Iran’s involvement in attacking an Israeli jet are so ridiculous ... Iran only provides military advice to Syria.”

The US — an ally of Israel — blamed Iran for the incident, and said in a statement that it supported Israel’s right to defend itself.

It also emphasised that the US did not participate in Israel’s military operations in Syria.

It confirmed that it fully supports “Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself against threats to its territory and its people”, and called for “greater international resolve in countering Iran’s malign activities”.

Meanwhile Russia — a firm ally of the Syrian pro-Assad government — urged “all sides to exercise restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an even greater complication of the situation”.

ritics have warned that the escalation of this conflict could force other countries into the mix.

The New York Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief David Halbfinger said this is just the beginning of a wider conflict between Israel, Iran and Iran’s alliances.

“Neither side can be expected to back down,” he wrote.

But it’s not just the Middle East that may be affected. While Russia has largely managed to avoid taking sides in the conflict, experts say this won’t last forever.

Chagai Tzuriel, the director general of the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, said Russia now faces a “huge dilemma”.

“Assad knows that Russia has advanced anti-aircraft capacities in Syria that it hasn’t deployed to protect him,” he told the Times. “And Israel knows that Russia hermetically controls Syrian airspace, and yet it did not inform Israel about the drone. Russia is going to have to decide which side they are on — and they don’t want to be seen as being on either side.”

Daniel Shapiro, who served as US Ambassador to Israel in the Obama Administration, said the US needed to increase its role in the conflict, rather than leave Israel to its own devices.

“With yesterday’s penetration of Israeli airspace by an Iranian UAV, a serious escalation, the United States needs to upgrade its involvement,” he wrote in Haaretz.

Meanwhile, Israeli journalist Alon Ben-David suggested the Syrian government will only be further inspired to launch future attacks.

“(Israelis had) grown accustomed to no one in the region being able to threaten our aircraft,” he wrote in the Hebrew-language newspaper Maarav. “Assad’s men will try hard to achieve more accomplishments like this.”

As the Washington Post pointed out, the opposing forces had a common enemy in Islamic State. The fight against these forces is now slowing down, and new conflicts are taking its place.

In an editorial, Gulf News warned that a war between Israel and Syria will “spark another refugee exodus that the region is not prepared to handle”, saying Iran and Israel should take their fight elsewhere.